Renovation in Campos
The farmhouses on this flat open land are long, low and wide, and that shape decides the budget more than the finish does. A single storey spread across a large footprint has a great deal of roof, a great deal of external wall, and very little of the property stacked on top of anything else.
Wide and low costs differently from tall and narrow
A two-storey town house puts one roof over two floors of living space. A traditional farmhouse here puts a roof over all of it, so for the same internal area there is far more roof to relay, far more external wall to insulate and render, and far more perimeter where the building meets the ground and the damp.
The spans are the other half of it. Rooms in these houses are wide, ceilings are carried on long timber beams, and where those beams are tired the options are limited and none of them is quick. It is the first thing worth having assessed, because a decision about the roof structure changes everything below it and cannot sensibly be taken later.
What it buys is straightforwardness elsewhere. There are few stairs, the plan is usually simple and additive, and extending or reorganising a single-storey building is a much smaller structural problem than doing the same thing to a stacked one. Layout changes here tend to be cheap; the envelope is where the money goes.
What these houses usually need
- Roof structure and covering, over an area larger than the plan suggests
- Long timber beams, assessed where they bear rather than from below
- Insulation across a big envelope, which is where the comfort is
- Rising damp along a long perimeter sitting close to the ground
- Rendering and lime work on a lot of external wall
- Water supply and storage where the mains stops at the road
- Waste treatment, sized for the house rather than for the old use
- Electrical installation across a wide plan with long runs
- Shade and shelter on land with nothing standing on it
- Outbuildings, which are often better converted than extended into
Most asked for on this land
Finca renovation
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How your request reaches a company
Mallorca Renovation is a comparison service. A request for a renovation on rural land goes to the renovation and building companies on our list; they quote the work and carry it out, and any agreement is between you and the company you pick.
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Describe the job
Tell us the property, roughly what you want and where it is. Photographs and a rough plan help, though neither is required.
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We match it
The request goes to companies that work in your area and take on this kind of job at this size.
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They quote you
Each company contacts you directly with its own price, timing and approach. We do not set any of it.
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You compare and choose
Put the quotes side by side and take the one you want, or none of them. Using the site costs you nothing.
Why is the roof such a large part of the quote?
Because on a single-storey building the roof covers the entire floor area rather than half of it. The same house arranged over two floors would have roughly half as much roof and half as much of the cost that goes with it.
Is it cheaper to extend or to convert an outbuilding?
Frequently the outbuilding, since it already has walls and often a roof, and it is usually free of the layout somebody lived in. It is worth having both priced, because the answer varies more between properties than people expect.
What if there is no mains water or drainage?
Common here, and manageable, and it belongs in the budget from the start rather than at the end. Supply, storage, pressure and waste treatment are a project of their own alongside the building work.
Get quotes for a farmhouse renovation
Describe the property and the land once, and let several companies price the same scope.